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A08068	The confession of faith of certayn English people living in exile, in the Low countreyes. Together with a brief note of the speciall heads of those things wherin we differ fro[m] the Church of Engla[n]d.; True confession of the faith, which wee falsely called Brownists, doo hould	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?; Johnson, Francis, 1562-1618.	1607 (1607)	STC 18435; ESTC S119852	30,939	73

cannot preach so vpon their displeasure and for not obeying their injunctions they are many tymes suspended degraded and if they will not be ruled put in prison so that sundry of thē have ben suspended and imprisoned for preaching against the Prelats not subscribing to their devised Articles and Booke of cōmon prayer not wearing the sqare cap and surplice not reading the service booke be tyed to the same not coming to the Bbs courts visitations inquisitions c. tyll now of late being wearyed with these troubles they give place to their tyranny and are content to conforme themselves and yeeld their canonical obedience according to their oath ●eeping now silence yea going back bearing bolstering the things which heretofore by word and wryting they stood against so long as there was any hope that the Prince Counsel would have hea●kened vnto them and put these adversary Prelats out of the Church Fourthly for administratiō which is by Law imposed vpon all both Clergie and Laitie for so they distinguish them they have gathered their Service book verbatim out of the Masse book turning out of Latine into English the Suffrages Prayers Let any Collects c. leaving out some of the gross pointes therin keping still the old fashio● of Psalmes Chapters Pistles Gospell● versicles respondes also T● Deum Bened●●tus Magnificat Nunc dimittis Our Father Lord have mercy vpon vs The Lord be wi● you O Lord open th●w my lyps Glory to God ● high Lyft vp your harts O come let vs reioyc● Glory be to the Father Quicunque vult ● These doe they read dayly morninge an● evening all the yeare long in their priest● vestures Surplice cope c. some the● saye and some they sing having in the Cathedrall Churches the Organs Quer●●ters singing men and boyes as in tymes pa● in pope●y Many popish errors yet remayn in that book which their own preacher have noted found fault with There a● they prescribed what prayers to read ov● the dead over the co●n grasse some time in the yeare By it are they injoyned ● keep their holy dayes to their Lady ● they cal her to all Saincts and Angel● to all Christs Apostles except Paul a● Barnabas whose eyes they are cōmande● to fast as also their Lent Ember day● besides frydayes and saturdayes throug● out the whole year By this book are t●● Ministers instructed how to marry wi● the signe of the Ring c. to baptise the hallowed Font with signe of 〈◊〉 crosse with Godfathers and Godmothers asking the child whether it wil forsake the devil and all his works c. to minister also their other sacrament or communion to the people kneling as when in popery they received their maker the words of Christs institution altered and others in stead of them taken out of the popes portuis with innumerable such like enormities and fopperies wherewith it swarmeth And this is all the worship and service which many parishes have vsually except peradventure some written Homilies which the vnlearned Priests read vnto them This service must first be read and hath the preeminence even on the Lords dayes before any preaching yea before the Bible it self He that can read this book● distinctly is fit ynough with them to be a Preist yea many that have ben Artificers as Shoemakers Taylers Weavers Porters c and without any giftes or knowledg at all save only to read English have ben and are admitted to this day maynteyned by the Prelats in the Ministerie To these Churches Ministers Service must all the people there come every daye yea though they hav in the next parish a Preacher and in their own a dumb vnlearned Priest yet are they all tyed to their owne Church and Minister and must at the least twise a yeare receve the Sacramēt at his hāds If they refuse this or do not ordinarily come to their parish Church thē are they sūmoned excōmunicated imprisoned tyl they become obedient In this bōdage are our countrymen there held vnder their Priests and Prelats and such as by the word of God witnes against and condemne these abhominations they hate punish put to death and persecute out of the Land Who now in whom any spark of true light is cannot playnly perceive this their Ministery worship and Church to be false adulterate Doth Christs eternall testament ordeyn and approve of such popish Lordes and Prelats to reigne over his Church Are these those Christian Bishops that is Pastors Teachers and Elders which he hath set in his Church and over his owne people vnto the ende of the world Or can those Preachers which are thus created and deposed by thus sworne and obedient vnto their spirituall Lordes be deemed true Teachers of the Gospell of Christ lawfully called and ordeyned to that Ministerye Is that their English Masse the trew spirituall worship of God according to his owne wil We are taught in the scriptures that there can be no agrement made betwixt Christ and Antichrist betwixt the Lawes of God and mens traditions that the servants of Iesus may not submitt vnto or receive the marke of that Beast neyther drinke of the cup of the whore of Babylons fornications or buy any of her wares but must contend for the mayntenance of that saith which was once gyven vnto the saincts keeping their souls and bodyes pure frō Antichristiā pollutions touching no vnclean thing nor having any fellowship with the vnfruteful works of darknes least by partaking with their synnes they receve also of their plagues drynck of the wyne of the wrath of God be tormented in fyre and brimstone before the holy Angels and before the Lamb for evermore If Christ be God let vs follow him but if the Pope be God what shall we say Why have we left him his Church and ministery his worship jurisdiction or what halting and mocking with the Lord is this to put away the Popes person and reteyne his Prelacy and Ministery his Lawes Traditions and Canons his worship service or at the least to frame vnto our selves a worship Ministery and Church after the patterne and mould of the Apostasy of Rome which what other thing is it then to make an Image of that wild beast and force men to worship it Thus seest thow briefely good Christian Reader the thinges which we mislike in the Church of England and for which we have separated our selves as God commaundeth To all these if we were amongst them should we be forced to submitt our bodyes soules or els suffer violence at the handes of the Prelats end our lives by violent death or most miserable imprisonment as many of our brethren before vs have done For so great is the malice and power of those Romysh Priests that they persecute vnto death such as speak against them and such poor Christians as they cast into their noysome prysons can seldome

that Church Neyther have we shaken of our alleageance and dutifull obedyence to our Soveraigne PRINCE the honorable Counsellers and other Magistrates set over vs but have alwayes and still do reverēce love and obey them every one in the Lord opposing our selves against all enemyes forreigne or domestical against all invasions insurrections treasons or conspiracies by whomsoever intended against the Prince and the State and are ready to adventure our lives in their defence if need require Neither have our greatest adversaryes ever ben able to attaint vs of the least disloyalty in this regard And though now we be exiled yet do we dayly pray wil for the preservation peace prosperity of our Soveraigne Prince al the dominions of that kingdome And whereas we have been accused of intrusion into the Magistrates office as going about our selves to reforme the abuses in that land it is a mere malicious calumnie which our adversaries have forged out of their own hart We have alwayes both by word practise shewed the contrary neyther ever attempted or purposed any such thing but have endevored thus only to reforme our selves and our lives according to the rule of Gods word by absteyning from al evill keeping the cōmandements of Iesus leaving the suppressing and casting out of those remnants of Idolatry vnto the Magistrates to whom it belongeth And further we testify by these presents vnto all men desyre them to take knowledg heerof that we have not forsaken any poynt of the true Ancient Catholicke and Apostolike fayth professed in our land but hold the same groundes of Christian religion with them stil agreeing lykewise herein with the Dutch Scottish Germane French Helvetian and al other Christian reformed Churches round about vs whose Confessions published we cal to witnes our agreement with them in matters of greatest moment being conferred with these Articles of our sayth following The thinges then onely against which we contend which we mislike in the E●glish parish assemblies are many reliqu●s of that m●n of synne whom they pretend to have abandoned yet reteyned among them and with a high hand maynteyned vpholden and imposed The particulers whereof being almost infinite cannot wel of vs be set down and would be tedious and yrksome to thee good Reader But the principal heads we wil truely relate and that ●o briefly as in so large and confuse a subject we can First in the planting and constituting of their Church at the beginning of Queen Elizabets reigne they receyved at once into the body of that Church as mēbers the whole land which generally then stood for the most part professed Papists who had revolted from the profession which they made in the dayes of King Edward of happy memory and shed much blood of many Christian Martyrs in Queen Maryes dayes This people yet standing in this fearful sinful state in Idolatry blyndnes superstition and all manner wickednes without any professed repentance and without the meanes thereof namely the preaching of the word going before were by force authority of Law only compelled and together received into the bosome and body of the Church their seed baptised themselves receved and compelled to the Lords supper had this ministery and service which now they vse inioyned set over thē and ever synce they and their seed remayne in this estate being all but one body commonly called the Church of England Here are none exempted or excluded be they never so prophane or wretched no Atheist adulterer thief or murderer no lyer perjurer Witch or conjurer c al are one fellowship one body one Church Now let the law of God be looked into and there wil be found that such persons are not fit stones for the Lords spiritual howse no meet members for Christs glorious body None of yeares may be received into the Church without fr●e professed fayth repentance and submission vnto the Gospel of Christ his heavenly ordinances Neyther may any contynew there longer then they bring forth the fruyts of fayth walking as becommeth the Gospell of Christ. Christ Iesus hath called severed his servants out of and from the world How then should this confused and mixed people be esteemed the orderly gathered true planted and right constituted Church of God Secondly as they have reteyned the whole ●rout of the popish multitude without any distinctiō for mēbers of their Church so have they set over them as reason was the same popish Clergie Prelacy which they receved from the Romish Apostasie and this day is to be found in the popish Churches to witt Archbs Primates Bbs. Metropolitanes Suffraganes Archdeacōs Deanes Chauncellors Commissaries and the rest of that rable which rule and govern these assemblyes according to the Popish Canons Rites and Customes These have the power and aucthoritie in their hands to set forth Injunctions to make and depose Ministers to excommunicate both Priests and people which they do very exquisitly if they yeeld not vnto them their due homage and obedience These have both Ecclesiastical and Civil aucthoritie to reigne as Princes in the Church and live as Lords in the Common wealth to punish imprison and persecute even to death al that dare but once mutter against their vnlawfull proceedings Of these Prelates tyranny cruelty vnlawful aucthoritie the better sort both of preachers and people have cryed out and long tyme sued vnto the Prince and Parlament to have them removed out of the Church as bei●g the lymmes of Antichrist But not prevayling they are now content fo● avoyding of the crosse of Christ to submit themselves their soules to this Antichris●tian Hierarchie and beare the sinful yok● and burthen of their traditions and to re●ceive and carry about the dreadful and d●●testable marke of the Beast vpon them Thirdly the inferiour ministery of tha● Church consisteth of Priests Parsons Vi●cars Curats hired preachers or Lecturers with Clerks and other like Officers which have received their offices callings and aucthoritie from their forenamed Lords the Prelates to whom they sweare their canonical obedience and promise to performe it with al● reverence and submission Their office i● to read over the service book Bbs Decrees thereby to worship God to marry to bu●ry to church women to visit the sick give him the Sacrament and forgive him al his sinnes if their livings or benefices as they are called amount to a certeine sūme of money in the Princes booke then must they preach or get some other to preach for them fower sermons in a yeare in their parish Where also must be noted that the most part of these Priests are vtterly vnlearned and cannot preach at all whereby it commeth to passe that most of the people are as blynd as they were in the dark dayes of popery These Ministers generally aswel preachers as other live in feare servitude vnder their foresaid Lords the Bbs. For as without their licence written and sealed they

the Law now in the tyme of the Gospel 4. That discreet faithfull able men though not yet in office of Ministerie may preach the Gospell and whole truth of God that men being first brought to knowledg converted to the Lord may then be ioyned together in holy comunion with Christ our head and one with another 5. That being thus ioyned every Church hath power in Christ to chuse and take vnto themselves meet and sufficient persons into the Offices and functions of Pastors Teachers Elders Deacons and Helpers as those which Christ hath appointed in his Testament for the feeding governing serving building vp of his Church And that no Antichristian Hierarchie or ministerie of Popes Arch-bishops Lord bishops Suffraganes Deanes Arch-deacons Chauncellors Parsons Vicars Priests Dumb-ministers or any such like may be set over the Spouse Church of Christ nor reteined therein 6. That the Ministers aforesaid being lawfully called by the Church where they are to administer ought to continew in their functions according to Gods ordinance and carefully to f●ed the flock of Christ cōmitted vnto them being not inioyned or suffred to beare Civil offices withall neither burthened with the execution of Civil affaires as the celebration of mariage bu●ying the dead c. which things belong aswel to those without as within the Church 7. That the due maintenance of the Officers aforesayd should be of the free and voluntarie contribution of the Church that according to Christs ordinance they which preach the Gospel may live of the Gospel and not by Popish Lordships and livings or Iewish Tithes Offerings And that therefore the Lands other like revenewes of the Prelats Clergie yet remayning being still also baits to allure the Iesuites Seminaries into the Land incitements vnto them to plot prosecute their woonted evil courses in hope to enioy them in tyme to come may and ought to be taken away converted to better vse as those of the Abbeyes Nunneries have been heretofore by the Princes power and authority to the honor of God great good of the Reālme 8. That al particular Churches ought to be so constituted as having their own peculiar Officers the whole body of every Church may meet together in one place ioyntly perform their duties to God one towards another And that the censures of admonition and excommunicatiō should in due maner be executed for sinne convicted obstinatly stood in This power also to be in the body of the Church whereof the parties so offending persisting are members 9. That the Church is not to be governed by Popish Canons Courts Classes Customes or any humane inventions but by the Lawes rules which Christ hath appointed in his Testament That no Apocrypha writings but only the Ca●nical scriptures are to be vsed in the Church And that the Lord is to be worshipped and called vpon in spirit truth according to that forme of praier given by the Lord Iesus Mat. 6. after the Leitourgie of his own Testament not by any other framed or imposed by men much lesse by one translated from the Popish 〈◊〉 as the Book of common praier c. 10. That the Sacraments being seales of Gods covenant ought to be administred onely to the faithful Baptisme to their seed or those vnder their government And that according to the simplicitie of the Gospel without any Popish or other abuses in either Sacrament 11. That the Church is not to be vrged to the observation of dayes tymes Iewish or Popish save only to sanctify the Lords day Neyther to be laden in thinges indifferent with rites ceremonies Whatsoever invented by men but that christian libertie may be rete●ned And what God hath left f●ee none to make bound 12. That al monuments of Idolatry in garments or any other things al Temples Altars Chappels other places dedicated heertofore by the Heathèns or Antichristians to their fa 〈…〉 worship ought by aucthoritie to be rased bolished not suffered to remayne for nourishing superstition much lesse imploied to the tr 〈…〉 worship of God 13. That Popish degrees in Theologie i 〈…〉 forcement to single life in Colledges abuse the study of prophane heathen Writers w 〈…〉 other like corruptions in Schooles Academi 〈…〉 should be removed redressed that so th 〈…〉 may be the welsprings 〈◊〉 series of true lea●ning godlines 14. Finally that all Churches peop●● without exception are bound in Religion on 〈…〉 ly to receive submit vnto that constitution Ministerie Worship order which Christ Lord King hath appovnted vnto his Churc● not to any other devised by Man whatsoeve●● Let him that readeth consider Act. 28 2 Rev 〈…〉 ●al 105. ● 14. Pet. 2 9. Psal. 46 1 Rev. 2. 5. * 2 Cor. 6. 1. ● 15. c Psa. 94. 20. 2 Thes. 2. 3. | Ps. 37. 2● Ier. 51. 6. Rev. 18. 4. 14. 1. Neh. 6. 6. 7. ● Harmon of Confes. ‡ 1 Pet. 2. 5. Ier. 51. 26. * Act. 2. 38. 40. 41. and 8. 36. 37. 15 9. Ioh 10. 3. 4 5. Esa. 35. 8. 9. | Ioh. 15. 2. 5. Mat. 18. 15. 17 Lev. 13. 46. Num. 4. 13. † Iohn 15. 19. 17. 14. 16 Mat. 3. 12. Lev. 20. 24. ●6 1 Iohn 4. 5. 6. About forty ecclesiasticall popish offices are at this day in the Church of England never a one appointed by Christ in his Testament With what words and rites in what habit and gesture these things are to be done they are taught in their Rubrik Some of them in certaine English books set forth have reckned above 100. popish corruptiōs yet reteyned in this Church * Rom. 12. 1. Cor. 12. Eph. 4. 11. 12 13. ‡ Ioh. 4. 24. Mat. 15. 9. † Deut. 6. 4. 5 Mat. 16. 6. ● Cor. 6. 14. 15. Psal. 106. 34. 35. 36. | Iudo vers 3. ‡ 2 Cor. 6. 17. Eph. 5. 11. * Rev. 18. 4. 14. 10 11. Mat. 6. 24. 2 Kin. 16. 10 11 12. Rev●l 13. 12. 14. 15. 〈◊〉 51. 6. Mi● 2. 10. Rev. 18. 4. 2 Cor. 6. 17. 〈…〉 40. Psal. 9. 12. Heb. 13. 3. Gal. 4. 4. 5. 6. 5. 1. 2. Heb. 8. 9. 10. chap. 2. Cor. 4. ● Iam. 2. ● † Deut 6. 4. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Eph. 4. 4. 5. 6. 1 Cor. ● 6. 12. 4. 5. 6. 13. Ier. 6. 16. Ioh. 14. 6. | 1 Tim. 6. 3. 13. 14. Mat. 15. 9. 28. 20. Deut. 4. 2. 6. 12. 32 1 Cor 4. 17. 14. 33. 2 Tim. ● 15. 16. 17. Gal 8. 9. Revel 2● 18 19. * Ioh. 4. 24. ‡ Exod. 3. 14. Rom. 11. 36. Act 17. 28. † 1 Tim. 1. 17. Esa. 6. 3. 66 1. 2. | 1 Iohn 5 7. Mat. 28. 19. Pro. 8. 22. Heb. 1. 3. 9. 14. Phil. 2. 6. 1 Cor. 8. 6. Micah 5. 2 Psal. 2. 7. Gal. 4. 6. Iohn 1. 1. 2. 18. 10. 30. 38. 15. 26. * Esa. 46. 10.